Melburg Luft

This is my daily. I now perfectly understand why cars have seat warmers. They kick in slightly before the heater starts putting out at least luke warm luft.


Yes it gets rather cool over here - and its not even winter yet...


When I bought it, it came with a second set of wheels and tyres. The tyres are these weird Norwegian brand. After a bit of googling, it turns out they are the ducks nuts of winter tyres. I never knew that winter tyres existed until I arrived - having driven on snow they have amazing grip. Chains are banned on our towns roads - so this is as good as it gets.

It's the 2.0T engine. 200hp in a little car is too much for this old geezer.
Funny thing is the engine burns oil - I thought that modern cars didn't burn oil? Needs topping up about every month.

At gm, a quart every 1000miles was normal. Strange when you have an engine holding 4qts & oil change every 5k.

My R36 used to use oil as well. Developed a noisy top end so decided to let it go. 86,000kms too

Winter treads are common in Europe. I was driving a Mondeo in der fatherland with winter treads. A sticker on the dash told me so, and tgat I should not exceed 190kmh

Winter tyres and even studded tyres are law in some countries during winter months.

Had metal studded tyres on my car in Sweden.

nice to hear from you simon

hope it working out for you... now where are the pics of all the splits and zwitters?